[The Anderson Family Collection, No. 4 - Weddings and Vacations] captions transcript

[The Anderson Family Collection, No. 4 - Weddings and Vacations]

This home movie documents the Anderson family attending weddings and vacationing in Texas. The film begins with the wedding of Bill and Sue Willits and family decorating their honeymoon car. The film continues with the rehearsal dinner and wedding of another couple and their departure for their honeymoon (6 min., 19 sec.). This couple swims on their honeymoon (9 min., 57 sec.), tours the Johnson Space Center (10 min., 36 sec.), swims in the ocean (13 min 38 sec.), watches seals and dolphins perform at Sea-Arama of Texas (15 min. 35 sec.), rides a ferry (18 min., 41 sec), poses with oil wells and visit the San Jacinto Monument (21 min., 22 sec.), and tours the Battleship Texas (23 min., 11 sec).
Date: unknown
Creator: Anderson, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Cochran Family Films, No. 10 - Holidays and Community Events] captions transcript

[Cochran Family Films, No. 10 - Holidays and Community Events]

This home movie compilation reel documents the daily lives and activities of the Cochran family including milestones celebrated with their first child Dennis Cochran and family vacations. The film includes footage of Dennis' second birthday party, Dennis in a bucket and playing with a puppy, family posing for the camera, tornado damage (possibly in South Carolina) including overturned cars and a mattress hanging from a telephone pole, playing in snow, family vacations in Galveston, taking off in Delta airplane, and an unknown statue and state building. The film also includes what appears to be the 1956 Cotton Bowl Classic that paired Texas Christian University (TCU) with Mississippi. This footage includes the exterior of the stadium and a parade. Footage shot within the stadium is out of focus.
Date: 195X
Creator: Cochran, Jay
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston] captions transcript

[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston]

This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family vacationing in Galveston and at Lake Texoma in the summer of 1956. The road trip begins with title cards that read "R.E. Hill Presents," "1956," "Filmed and Edited by Roy E. Hill," and "Helen, Art, and Bonita." This first segment begins with footage shot from their moving car as they pass through Houston and Texas City on their way to Galveston. Footage includes the Texas Heroes Monument, exteriors of homes, boats on the water, businesses including the Omar Khayyam Club (04:28), and docked tourists boats the "Yacht Garmencita" and "Miss Texas" (04:29). The family visits Fort Crockett (04:44), plays on the beach and in the ocean, observes boats on the water, and swims at the hotel pool. This segment concludes with the title card "The End" (11:17). In the next segment, there is a shot of the Dave Hicks Company, Inc., a woman picking up a child at the Young Texan School (12:06), a small airplane being worked on in a driveway (12:06-12:58), children riding bicycles (12:58-13:30) and family visiting the zoo (13:30-15:16). The film concludes with a family trip to Denison Dam and Lake Texoma with the family driving to …
Date: July 1956
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[ Riley Family Films, No. 3 - Vacations and Birthdays] captions transcript

[ Riley Family Films, No. 3 - Vacations and Birthdays]

This home documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including birthdays and vacations. The film begins with footage of a man gardening while another poses for the camera and smokes a pipe (00:00-01:10) followed by footage of the Galveston sea wall (01:10-01:31). Young Helen Riley plays outdoors with an umbrella (01:31-02:29), rides a train--possibly the Texas Eagle--with her family (02:29-03:05), celebrates her birthday (03:05-05:11), and rides a pony (05:11-05:34).
Date: 1952?
Creator: Riley, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Nelson Family Films, No. 5 - Vacation in Galveston] captions transcript

[Nelson Family Films, No. 5 - Vacation in Galveston]

This home movie documents the Nelson family's trip to Galveston, Texas. Footage includes the family riding on a large boat, playing in the ocean and on the beach, driving down a palm tree lined road, and a little boy waving an American flag.
Date: 1954?
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Tincher Family Collection, No. 5 - Music Festivals and Travel] captions transcript

[The Tincher Family Collection, No. 5 - Music Festivals and Travel]

This home movie documents John Tincher and friends traveling, attending music festivals, making short-films, and spending time in Dallas. The film begins with Tincher and friends traveling to Indiana and Missouri, with footage of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Gateway Arch, and an American Airlines airplane. The film continues with the friends at a home near Tyler Street in Dallas, Texas with fast motion photography and footage of KRLD buses (2 min., 36 sec). the film continues with the Vietnam Moratorium Day at Winfrey Point on White Rock Lake on October 15, 1969 (4 min., 34 sec.). Footage includes protest signs and performances by unidentified rock bands (05 min., 50 sec.) and the Velvet Underground (8 min., 7 sec.). Musician Sue Morris appears as a singer at 6 min., 28 seconds.The film continues with footage of a B. F. Goodrich Store truck on fire in Oak Cliff (10 min., 34 sec.) and a jazz performance at El Centro College (13 min., 27 sec.). Tincher and friend then create an experimental short film (14 min., 29 sec.). While driving in an unidentified location, Tincher and friends shoot footage of the road and businesses including the White Owl Cafe, the Red Door, …
Date: 1969-10-15/1970
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History